YouTube is shutting down its YouTube Stories feature in order to focus on Shorts and Community posts. Credit: Mateusz Slodkowski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images YouTube viewers are used to ...

There is a quieter, more succinct wing of literature that thrives on pithy conciseness: the short story. The authors of this art form have perfected the concept of this type of storytelling by ...

Storytelling is the best tool we have for effectively communicating about big, systemic issues like racism, classism, and transphobia. People think in stories. When we don’t have a narrative that ...

I’m always tapping little circles. If I told you a decade ago that “little circles” give me intimate views into the lives of others, you’d probably assume I was some creepy neighbor with binoculars.

October is Family History Month, a month dedicated by Congress to the idea that preserving and sharing our family histories is important. Indeed, increasing numbers of families have begun researching ...

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live,” Joan Didion wrote in The White Album in the last century. It has become her iconic quote, as well as the title of her collected nonfiction. Didion used ...

A simple online search of “why family stories are important” yields over two billion hits — everything from news and magazine articles to self-help books and online resources to help you share your ...

The story of the writer who called himself O. Henry could almost be an O. Henry story. The writer—his real name was William Sidney Porter—had a secret, and he spent most of his adult life trying to ...

Some key figures in literature, the performing arts, science and more ponder the purpose and vitality of storytelling in our lives. Credit...Paul Blow Supported by By The New York Times This article ...

But now that’s changed. In almost everyone’s never-ending quest for better sleep, the adult bedtime story industry is booming. By Hillary Richard Around 10 p.m., Lindsay Colford settles into bed with ...

I’m a parent of 6-year-old twins. When I first read about how some Inuit parents use stories to shape kids’ behavior, I couldn’t imagine having the patience to follow their example. Then, one night a ...

On a rainy Thursday afternoon in November, I stepped inside the National Museum of African American History and Culture, in Washington, D.C. On past visits, I’d always encountered crowds of tourists ...